On Fri, Mar 23, 2001 at 08:58:33AM +0000, Philip Blundell wrote: > >Now, i have looked at this bug, saw that the upstream package checks for > >sa110 > >and armv4l, but rejects anything else. I have added armv3l support in the > >3.01-4 version of this package, but as the ocaml package generate machine > >code, maybe there is a reason for the armv3l subarch not being supported, so > >i > >don't know if this will trully work. > > ARMv4l just adds a few extra instructions; I doubt the distinction is > actually important to your package. The way the Debian compiler is set up it > will generate code that runs on older machines even if you compile on an > ARMv4 > box.
mmm, ... we need to make sure that the native code compiler don't make use of these extra instructions though. from a quick glance at ocaml-3.01/asmrun/arm.S, i don't think that is so, after all this file is pretty short, but then i know nothing about arm assembly. Could you please look at it (it is 338 lines only) and check that no armv4l instructions are used ? > We do have an armv3l machine available, and I'll try to test your package on > it later today. Thanks, if it builds correctly, then i will close the bug on monday, and forward the patch upstream. Friendly, Sven Luther
